Help! My house (2 story, 1890, "balloon" framing [exterior wall studs run from the foundation to the attic]) has squirrels. They are going in the top of a soffit/fascia (?) board above a second floor window. From there, they somehow crawl down the wall, halfway across that wall, and in between the dining room ceiling (9 1/2' ceilings) and the floor above it. I'm working on my side porch (adjacent to the dining room) and have pulled the beadboard ceiling off of it. Above where the porch ceiling was, on the outside of the dining room wall, I can see studs, but the wall I see is not the dining room interior wall (double studs, perhaps?). The dining room ceiling is higher than the porch roof, so I can't actually see between the dining room ceiling and the floor of the room above it. However, the squirrels (a mom and her litter) sometimes make an appearance in this area and scamper down the wall and across the porch. Now that I have given you the background, how can I rid my house of the squirrels? I thought of using smoke, but I'm afraid of driving them deeper into the house instead of out. Moth balls don't work, and I can't get in between the walls or the ceiling/floor to chase them. I hesitate to use poison, because I don't want them to die inside the walls. Do any of you have experience with this? Ideas? :help: